The state chronicle., 1887-11-10
BEATS TIE RECORD,
III .65l PCt NDS OFT TOBACCO SOLD
AT THE PRIZE SALE.
Raieigh Humps Itself and Walks to the
front! Big Prices Paid tor Tobacco,
and SeLlG.s EIeaIiN nlna

The biz premium tobacco sale occurred
last Friday and SATURDAY. It mad been
much talked Of and was looked forward
70 with especial interest, not by tobacco
growers and dealers only but by the gen
er5l public The amount of tobacco brought
Was larger than was even expected
IS saying much. It came not only from
Wake and the surrounding counties but
from some distant counties and some from
Virginia. Live buyers We're here from
Durham, Oxford, Henderson, Richmond,
DanVille and other markets.
Two days before the sale, tobacco com
menced to come in, by wagons. by rail, by
day and by night, until Saturday at
noon. If the big rains before hand had
not washed away many of the bridges
throughout the county, much more would
have been here.
All Thursday night the lights glimmerod
or busy hands unloading trucking, weigh
in- and asserting at the warehouses.
Friday morning dawncd bright and
beautiful. BY o'clock each warehouse
was well filled up, with people and tobacco,
and presented an ideal picture of busy
tobacco mart. Sales We're held alternately
from tie three warehouses, beginning at
10 o'clock, at
Aikens' s'Warehou>e.
The sale opened with a vim. The auc
tioneer had creased his tongue and
i wagged incessantly. The managers
We're busy, and bending all their energies
to securing prices for customers. Each buy
er, Judging from the bidding had come
with the intention Of buying the lot. Most
| of the tobacco was of fine grade and the
prices ranged from $50 TO $40 per hun
dred pounds, the average being So.
Nearly $4,000 pounds We're sold.
The finest lot ever brought to Raleigh
was sold at this sale and brought 81. 40 per
| pound. 1t was cultivated by Mr.. r. z.
Aiken, of Granville. father Of Messrs. t.
K. and W. II. Aiken the young propretors
of the warehouse. Mr.. Aiken brought
413 pounds to the sale and received 1871 33
for 1t, making an average price OF sos.
| per hundred. lie received the SO prem
um offered for the finest white wrappers,
and the 500 one for the finest load. His
premiums amounted to S205.
Mr.. a. G. Ray Wake, sold 7S1 pounds
at an average price Of S44 15 per hundred.
Mr., l. a. wilkins, of Granville, received
the largest check paid at this warehouse.
After the floor was cleared, the crowd
repaired TO the place OF the next sale,
Stronach's Warehouse,
4 the largest il Raleigh. The mammoth
i floor was completely covered with el4
/ yellow cleaning piles of the bright gol-
/ den weed and made a sight beautiful
i TO look upon. Wagons were still being
/ uuloaGed, and not until the auctlonter
commenced to cry out for bids did the
unloading stop. 3S, ,651 pounds We're on
the floor, aud Manager Mosely was in his
element. He stood by the auctioneer ably
seconding al his efforts to get good prices
/ for his friends, and he got there as the
+ say ing IS. From the beginning Of the sale
4 till the close there was a scene OF anllna-
tion. enjoyable TO tobacco men but per-
fectly unnteiigible to those not Initiated
in the mystery OF the trade. The house
was '.clOck full' of tobacco there not be-
j ing room 70 walk between the piles. Inc
excited buyers and interested spectators
! including some beautiful women, followed
Il the alctioneer around the house, ,trampling
and standing o. the piles. It was inter
est n : TO a looker-on, TO watch the excite
clent and the expression on the buyer )
faces a~ the bids were called out. If Cow
4 per had seen il he surely would have
called ii "a map Of busy life" 3Sd5I
pounds We're sold for S9,1e5, an average
OF SOB 9 per hundred. \ gentleman who
i knows all about the tobacco business said
it was the prertiest lot of tobacco ever sold
in Raleigh The following are few Of
. the prices realized By farmers:
\ J " Maneum sold for $500, 800, 81
aud $40 per hundred.
c. y Nangum sold for S115, s61. $50
s110. s112. $40 and $50 per hundred.
". j Nangun- for S151. <135. 500
and $40 per hundred
r L. Williams sold for S111, 500 ;595,
$50. S11. >45. $40 and $50 Der hundred
4. /. Allen-soId for Sl01. So. S.Oa1d
so Der hundred.
Benton Jones-sold for S103. 800. $101
$50. so. 500 $50 and S34 per hundred.
Thos II. Raney-sold for 800, Si39,
SO, 500 $50 and $40 per hundred.
Two many Iarr rs got 5ood prices 70
mention them all
Out OF 80 premiums awarded lhIs Ware
mouse received 10 or them,
Al / cloch 9lfonach ; moor was cleared
and buyers and spectators rushed, with
one accord, 70
Jones < Co.'S Warehouse.
1t was somewhat wonderful that the in
terest was unabated. after nearly whole
dav'S continuous selling and buying, but
tae breaks opened here as lively as at the
first sale. \ larger lot was at Jones 4
/ ..Tba Norman :, az his friends call him
tio1aa, rrnsirad his throat ..nealed him
salf.' of his coat and waded in 10 praise
tho ..,-a1Iow weed There was noise and